creatively

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English creative

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English creatively

From creative + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/, /-ɾəv-/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: cre‧at‧ive‧ly

Adverb

creatively (comparative more creatively, superlative most creatively)

1. In a creative manner.
   • 2000, Mark Oldach, Creativity for graphic designers:

     Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.

   • 2005, Ian Fillis, Creative Marketing For SMEs, page i:

     However, this can also cause increasing problems for those not prepared to think differently and creatively in an escalatingly competitive and crowded global marketplace.

   • 2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 June 2022:

     Parkour – often referred to as freerunning – entails creatively moving through an urban environment: flipping, jumping and vaulting across various obstacles.

Related terms

• creatify
• creative
• creativeness
• creativity
• creativize

Translations

in a creative manner

• Catalan: creativament
• Finnish: luovasti (fi)
• Hungarian: kreatívan (hu)
• Italian: creativamente (it)
• Portuguese: criativamente
• Spanish: creativamente (es)

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